
“Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.”
Short fiction, Aspects
“Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.”
Short fiction, Aspects
“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
Human Options (1981)
“Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.”
Minnesota declaration (1999)
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
Interview with Euronews' Claudio Rocco in 2011; as quoted in " Science says 'ciao' to Italy's Margherita Hack: the 'lady of the stars'", euronews.com (1 July 2013) https://www.euronews.com/2013/07/01/science-says-ciao-to-italy-s-margherita-hack-the-lady-of-the-stars.
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 90 “Unfurl the Sails, Speak the Names of the Stars” (p. 514)
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. The essential fact of our existence, perhaps the only fact of our existence – our own thought and perception is ruled off-side by the science it has invented. Science looks at the universe, doesn’t see itself there, doesn’t see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. We are still no nearer to coming to terms with the actual dynamics of what consciousness is.
“The sum of a million facts is not the truth.”